Posted in Economy, Fianna Fáil, Irish journalism, fuckwits, Banks, Irish Economy, Fine Gael, PDs, Greens, Politics on Nov 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
That was then…
Ireland’s decision to guarantee Irish banks’ deposits and debts for two years to calm investor concern could be followed by other countries. This may be a template for rescues elsewhere if Irish banks can replenish their capital base,” Harvinder Sian, a fixed-income strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London said […]
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Short-sighted economic policy?
Property bubble burst?
Severe credit-crunch?
Erectile dysfunction?
If you are ticking all of the above boxes, (except maybe, ahem, the last one), then you’re probably in Ireland in 2008, or Sweden in 1992.
Sixteen years ago, Sweden was looking down the barrel of an insolvent gun. Its housing bubble had burst, resulting in a credit crunch […]
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Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on Sep 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Fine Gael and Enda Kenny are giving it socks today about “common sense” and “missed opportunities.” Kenny’s trying to make out that during the past four years Fine Gael was a tough-nut opposition, one that wasn’t afraid to shoot from the hip, to tell it like it is, to crap REAL bullets - and fire […]
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And in a similar vein to the SLF song, here’s Paul Brady with his take on anti-Irish sentiment in Britain in the 1970s. Of course, the smug racist cunts in Fine Gael, well, they didn’t have to emigrate in the first place.
Enjoy.
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Fifteen years of prosperity, and suddenly we forget our history.
This is one of the worst parts of the current crop of Irish racists in Fine Gael - absolutely no idea of what Irish people went through in England. They pounce on non-nationals here with the same venom and enthusiasm as their British counterparts twenty years […]
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Fine Gael has nineteen press statements on its website relating to immigration and integration. Last night I put them into word cloud in order to see what words came out the most. The result is above.
The statements are saturated with words like “trafficking”, “crime”, “criminal”, “illegal”, “offenders” and “victims”.
Part of the […]
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Following on from Leo Varadkar’s enthusiastic embrace of the the economic policy of the British National Party (BNP), footage has just come through of another Fine Gael heavyweight working on the party’s next great policy idea.
Enjoy.
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Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on Aug 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
I know I’ve been going on about this, but really the first time I heard about Brian Hayes and Fine Gael’s education “portfolio”, this is what came into my head. I’ve only now gotten around to putting it up on the web. It’s taken from Alan Partridge, the final episode of the first series, when […]
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Enda Kenny was speaking yesterday about the economy. He was at the Humbert Summer School, and although he didn’t mention free laptops for schoolkids, or annual reports, or segregation, or hijabs, he did however criticise the government, calling it “devoid of ideas.”
Now, we all know about Fine Gael and ideas. The average Fine Gaeler has […]
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All this talk of Fine Gael and education got me thinking about their manifesto last year. So, I went onto their site and downloaded the thing. And what was the burning issue for Fine Gael with regard to education? Was it overcrowding? Was it underfunding? Was it maybe the deplorable state of assessment? Well, here […]
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